Slightly late in the day with this follow-up, but here goes: Owen Taylor <otaylor <at> redhat.com> writes: > On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 11:19 +0300, Naba Kumar wrote: > > Does gnome-shell work without graphics capabilities? A few days back I > > tried it from ubuntu karmic repository (so the release might be a bit > > old), but it didn't work without graphics acceleration support. > We've always planned to require graphics acceleration. This may just be me being slow, but I don't quite get this dependency, for the following reasons:
* Moblin, which was also based on Clutter, worked without hardware acceleration (admittedly not particularly fast, but usable). * The visual effects in GNOME Shell don't look much beyond what Doom 2 was doing on my completely unaccelerated 486 fifteen years ago, albeit with a lower resolution. Furthermore, most of the time it is running with windows mapped one-to-one. Surely an optimised path would be possible for this case? I assume (am I wrong?) that that would be a Clutter issue, not a GNOME Shell one. I think that with this fixed, I could happily live with slower, software rendered zooming windows (and I suspect that the Clutter folks would quickly find some way to make it work faster in software too). Regards, Michael _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
